Police in jinja is firing teargas live bullets in some parts of Jinja City to disperse people who are protesting high fuel and commodity prices. Local leaders have condemned the protests and blamed an invisible hand for fueling young people. National planning authority ED Joseph Muvawala has called on police to rush and secure the…
Kenya’s NANDI Hills, July 25 – Currently, Raila Odinga of the Azimio La Umoja – One Kenya coalition is being urged by Deputy President William Ruto to rethink his decision to skip tomorrow’s presidential debate. During a Monday campaign stop in Nandi Hills, Ruto said he would be there to greet him. I wish to…
As #Sml News reported last week of a pending RCC/RDCs reshuffle, performance pressure has grown among them. The recently appointed Resident District/City Commissioners (RDCs/RCCs) and their deputies have departed for their induction retreat at the National Leadership Institute in Kyankwanzi. The retreat will last one week, and the commissioners have already turned over their offices to…
During the 22nd Ordinary Summit of EAC Heads of State held in Arusha on Friday, July 22, 2022, President Evariste Ndayishimiye of Burundi was appointed to head the East African Community (EAC).President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya will step down in favor of Ndayishimiye following taking office in March 2021.At the close of the two-day conference…
“By virtue of the authority conferred on the President by Articles 113(1) and 114 (1) of the 1995 constitution of the Republic of Uganda, I hereby appoint persons below as Cabinet Ministers and Ministers of State”President Museveni tweeted. What awaits Nobert Mao!!!!
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s 2016 – 2021 term was codenamed Kisanja Hakuna Mchezo (Kiswahili Translation for Term of no playing/jokes). However, an evaluation of that term and going by his poor scores in the 2021 polls, the Kisanja was its own opposite. The argument that it was just a wave and not attention to issues…
The 3rd Deputy Prime Minister Hajjati Lukiya Nakadama Isanga is boiling with anger following thestealing of Food and other relief aid she supplied to the poor. Nakadama who is away in Canada for official government and party duties had lobbied government andwell wishers to give a hand to struggling families in her District. The relief…
The Cabinet will sit today to discuss whether to permit workers to be exported from Uganda to the Middle East. The government has been forced to have the hard talk due to the persistent cries of a group of employees, most of whom move to the Middle East to work as domestic helpers. The Cabinet…
Mr. Laban Joshua Musinguzi, the Coordinator of the Parliamentary Forum for Labour, Decent Employment and Productivity (PFLDEP) has called upon the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Decent Employment to carry out thorough consultations with all the members in the Labour externalization sector before presenting a comprehensive paper before Cabinet. This followed a July 4, Cabinet…
Police are investigating circumstances under which Batungura Bewotti 27, a student of law at Uganda Christian University Kampala Campus and resident of Kikoni Zone B, Makerere 3 Parish Kawempe Division in Kampala was murdered The incident took place yesterday July 14, 2022 at around 7pm during the last guild Presidential open campaigns at rugby grounds…
